Sunday, April 25, 2010

Google Forms for Authentic Assessment

Providing authentic assessment in project based classrooms is challenging. Google forms has allowed for the self and peer evaluation process to be much smoother, faster to tabulate, and has provided much more authentic feedback to all students involved in the learning projects. In addition I have found that when I use a google form for peer assessment, that the students' NEXT projects improve by leaps and bounds as opposed to just receiving feedback from me (it seems the kids listen better to their peers than their teacher!)

Here are a couple of examples.
First the form is created with the assessment criteria

A final, less exciting use of forms is for our students to report laptop damages straight from our website and have it all automatically compiled in a Google spreadsheet for documentation purposes. The benefits here are obvious if you know my personal struggles with paperwork organization!http://www.esu8.org/~oneill/24-7/damage.html